| Front | Pablum (noun) |
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| Back | Trite, insipid, or simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization. Originally, pablum was the trademark name for a soft, bland, mushy, easy-to-digest cereal developed for infants and invalids in the 1930s. Pablum was derived from the related word pabulum, which can refer to a nourishing substance or to insipid intellectual nourishment. A wonderful synonym for pablum is pap. Like pablum, pap also originally referred to soft food for infants. “That white paper from the think tank is just intellectual pap.” |
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